HOME BASE: Philly region and the shore.
STYLE: From old-school to spankin’-new, covers of dance party favorites, supersized with a generous helping of horns.
LINEUP: Ricky “Shorty” Tisch, vocals, keyboard; Dee Farace, lead vocals; Ronnie Brooks and Coretta Davis, vocals; John Kern, bass and vocals; Matty Kahn, Paul Baccash and John Gorbe, guitars; Carl Stives, bass; Tommy Karrick, drums; Neil “The Perkolator” Perkins, trombone; Danny Kern and Vincent Maiuri, trumpet; and Dan Fitzgerald, Kyle Kern, Alec Conigliaro, all sax.
FUN FACT: The band was the subject of a short documentary, “To Make a Long Story Short,” featured in the 2019…
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